Holly Blue (1 Viewer)

brianfm said:

I have been watching a Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus Butterfly in my garden over the weekend and today. Just wondering how common these are in N E England now?

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harry eales said:

Hello Brian,

For the past few years they have been turning up with some regularity in both Northumberland and Durham, never commonly though. A friend in Newcastle has had them for three consecutive years in his garden. The R.Tyne used to be it's northern boundary, but in the last two decades it has spread northwards, and was recently into southern Scotland, several were seen in Edinburgh last year.

It's always a 'good thing' locally.

Harry.

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